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GCSE History - Cold War and America quiz.
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Cold War: North Korea nearly took all of S. Korea in Sept. How did S. Korea change their fate?
UN army soldiers
UN stopped countries trading with N. Korea
Used newer developed weapons
A Spy mission involving a dead body
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Cold War: What Month and Year was Potsdam?
July, 1945
February, 1946
July, 1946
June, 1945
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America: When was the Freedom Rides?
1963
1961
1962
1964
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Cold War: Which year did Russia roll tanks into Hungary to stop them leaving the Warsaw Act?
1956
1955
1957
1954
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Cold War: What caused the Prague Spring in 1968? (Two answers)
Asked to leave the Warsaw Pact
Pizza Party
Visiting Leader from Non-Warsaw country
Introduced Democratic socialism - new parties
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America: When was MLK assassinated?
1965
1967
1968
1966
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America: What state is Topeka in?
North Carolina
LA
Kansas
Arkansas
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America: Which group did MLK lead?
NAACP
SCLC
State of Islam
Black Panthers
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America: Which year did Prohibition end?
1933
1930
1932
1931
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Cold War: How much money was given during the Marshall Plan?
$17 Billion
$15 Million
$17 Million
$15 Billion
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Cold War: Who invaded who first during the Korean War?
South Korea
North Korea
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America: Which year was the Stock Market Crash?
1919
1929
1920
1930
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Cold War: How long did the Berlin Blockade last and which year did it happen?
218 Days, 1948-9
318 Days, 1948-9
118 Days, 1947-8
418 Days, 1947-8
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America: Which president attacked McCarthy even though he was in McCarthy’s party?
Truman
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Johnson
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Cold War: Which Country did Communists actually get power through election?
Ukraine
Poland
Czechslovakia
Hungary
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Cold War: How much supplies were dropped during the Berlin Blockade?
3.5 Million Tons
3 Million Tons
1 Million Tons
1.5 Million Tons
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America: Where were they supposed to finish the rides but were prevented?
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Raleigh
Topeka
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Cold War: Which year was the Cuban Missile Crisis and who was president?
Kennedy, 1962
Kennedy, 1963
Johnson, 1963
Johnson, 1964
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America: Which year was the first Civil Rights Act established?
1964
1963
1962
1965
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America: Where did the rides finish?
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Raleigh, North Carolina
Jackson, Mississippi
Mongomery, Alabama
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America: What was the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act in 1922?
US companies had to pay more for Foreign goods
Foreign Countries had to pay more for US goods
US companies could buy foreign goods for cheaper
Americans could buy foreign products for cheaper
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America: Who was the NAACP?
National Association of the Advancement of Coloured Peoples.
National Association of African and Coloured Peoples.
National Association of the Advocacy of Coloured Peoples.
National Affiliation of the Advocacy of Coloured Peoples.
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Cold War: Which of these were NOT an agreement at Yalta?
Split Germany into 4
Russia would be allowed to join UN
Germany removed from EU
Free Elections in Eastern Countries
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Cold War: When and where was Churchill's Speech?
Massachusetts, 1945
Missouri, 1946
Maine, 1946
Mississippi, 1945
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America: In what year was 'Plessy vs Ferguson' which established 'Separate but Equal'?
1894
1895
1897
1896
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Cold War: What year did Stalin die and who replaced him?
Leonid Brezhnev, 1954
Imre Nagy, 1953
Nikita Khrushchev, 1953
Nikita Krushchev, 1954
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Cold War: Which country did the Truman Doctrine intend to help? (Two Answers)
Cyprus
Macedonia
Greece
Turkey
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America: When was Rosa Parks bus boycott? (Month, Year)
December, 1955
November, 1955
December, 1954
November, 1956
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Cold War: What was the short term cause of The Berlin Blockade?
Levi Jeans
Rock N Roll
Changing the currency
Too many people jumping the fence
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America: Which President started the New Deal?
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Hoover
Truman
